Objective: To analyze all the patients admitted in the ICU during the period from January to December 2004 utilizing the Rapoport method.Design: A prospective cohort study.Setting: A mexican intensive care unit within a teaching hospital.Patients: 338 adult patients.Interventions: None.Measurements and main results: Admittance: 428.
Included: 338. IRCE: 0.9. IRURE: 2.27. IRCE = standardized clinical performance index; a positive value reflects less mortality than expected. IRURE = standardized resource use performance index; a positive value reflects less resource utilization than expected. The units are the standard deviation of the mean of participant units in the Rapoport’s original study.Conclusion: In a one year period, we can see there is good clinical performance and less resource utilization than the reference units of the Rapoport study.